Here is part of a comment that I copied and pasted from a user on another win sub verse that may explain exactly what is going on

Upfish 2 point 28 minutes ago +3 / -1 A hopium addict is a lot like a leftist in two key ways. First, they are driven primarily by their emotional reaction to things. They will always default to that which makes them feel good over that which makes them feel bad. And that leads to the second, that they work backwards from a conclusion and construct a flimsy set of reasons that support the conclusion after deciding which conclusion they like the best, ie the one that makes them feel best. They don't let evidence and reality determine which conclusion is probably true, they let their feels determine which conclusion they want to be true and then craft bullshit to explain why it must be. And anything that flies in the face of this, and makes them feel bad, is shouted down until it's out of sight and stops making them feel bad.

In practicality, you see why this explains how they react to various events and what other people say.